272 REPORT—1904. 
Investigation of the Fossiliferous Drift Deposits at Kirmington, Lincoln- 
shire, and at various localities in the Kast Riding of Yorkshure.— 
Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. G. W. LaMPpLuGH (Chair- 
man), Mr. J. W. SraTHer (Secretary), Dr. TrEMpEstT ANDERSON, 
Professor J. W. Carr, Rev. W. L. Carrer, Mr. A. R. Dwerry- 
HOUSE, Mr. F. W. Harmer, Mr. J. H. Howartu, Rev. W. 
JOHNSON, Professor P. F. Kenpauu, Mr. E. T. Newton, Mr. H. M. 
PLATNAUER, Mr. CLEMENT REID, and Mr. THoMAS SHEPPARD. 
Owine to circumstances it has only been found possible during the 
present year to complete the investigation of the deposits at Kirmington 
and Great Limber, but it is hoped in the future to extend operations to 
Bielbecks and several other sections that require further elucidation. 
Kirmington Section. 
The work on this important section, which was begun last year, has 
now been carried to a successful conclusion ; and the results show that in 
some respects this section has no known parallel in English drift 
sections. It will be remembered that, as described in last year’s report, 
a brickyard is worked at this place in a mass of warp or clay containing 
estuarine shells with a freshwater bed at its base, and that this deposit is 
overlain by a bed of coarse flinty shingle, above which in one part of the 
pit there is found a few feet of red stony clay believed to be a boulder 
clay. The boring last year proved the presence of a glacial clay at some 
depth beneath the warp. The chief object of our investigation has been 
to discover the relationship of the fossiliferous warp to the Glacial 
Series, and to carry the boring through the superficial deposits to the 
chalk, which was not reached last year. 
During June of the present year a new boring was carried out under 
the personal supervision of the Chairman and Secretary, with the assist- 
ance of Mr. G. W. B. Macturk. Mr. Villiers, well engineer, of Beverley, 
undertook to put down the boring, and the Committee desire to express 
their indebtedness to him for the ready manner in which, at considerable 
personal inconvenience, he met their wishes as to the time and conditions 
of the work. 
In order to secure a section in another part of the pit, the site of the 
new boring was fixed at a point 80 yards north-east of last year’s boring. 
Although at the spot chosen the warp used for brickmaking had been 
excavated to a depth of 5 feet below the level of its base at the former 
site, this material was passed through in the new boring to a further 
depth of 3 feet, so that its base is here 8 feet below its position in 
the former boring. The total depth attained by the new boring, com- 
bined with the height of the open section, was 96 feet, or 41 feet lower 
than was reached last year. The surface of the chalk lay much deeper 
than was anticipated, and the borings seem to prove that the surface 
features of the locality are not due to the presence of chalk, as hitherto 
supposed, but that the rising ground has been formed by the erosion of a 
thick and complex mass of drift. 
The diameter of the second boring was at first 4 inches, narrowing 
